Family, Friends and Co-stars of James Gandolfini are shocked and saddened by news of the sudden death of the Hollywood heavyweight who won multiple Emmy Awards for his role as mob boss Tony Soprano in the smash HBO series “The Sopranos.” Gandolfini died of a heart attack yesterday in Rome. He was 51. Gandolfini was due to… Read more »
It’s the kind of visit that most media outlets can only dream of but today HM. Queen Elizabeth II popped into the BBC Studios in London. The Duke of Edinburgh had been expected to attend, but was admitted to hospital on Thursday for an operation. During her visit the Queen toured the BBC’s newsroom, dropped… Read more »
They spent their lives helping others with problems but a Brooklyn couple who hosted a self-help radio show committed suicide by suffocating themselves with helium and plastic bags. Leaving behind tragic suicide notes detailing a battle with bipolar disorder, police sources and witnesses said, friends and neighbors were taken aback by the tragic and ironic turn… Read more »
AFP – France’s culture minister has branded online retailer Amazon a “destroyer” of bookshops in the latest confrontation between the Socialist government in Paris and America’s giants of the digital economy. “Today, everyone has had enough of Amazon, which, by dumping, slashes prices to get a foothold in markets only to raise them once they… Read more »
Being confident and loud is the best way to win an argument – even if you are wrong according to a new study and it is the best way to get more Twitter followers. Researchers from Washington State University who studied the activity of Twitter users realized the more opinionated they were, the more influential and trustworthy… Read more »
Billy Joel, is a great performer but his remarks about 9/11 are extremely offensive to the many people who really suffered as a result of that tragedy. The singer went into rehab for his alcohol problem in 2005 and now in an interview with the New York Times he reveals how 9/11 turned him to drink…. Read more »
This is really quite a difficult story to tell because the facts seem too bizarre but one man is in hospital following a freak fall out of a window at a Broadway Theater. According to The New York Post, the theater-goer survived a plunge out a window above Broadway’s Lyceum Theater on West 45th Street today — landing on… Read more »
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short third novel, The Great Gatsby, – is shot through with flashes of gorgeous description, satiric wit, and bursts of dialogue that perfectly capture the ennui, emptiness and vulgar excess of the roaring twenties. The story centers on a mysterious con man, Long Island millionaire bootlegger, Jay Gatsby, and his pipe… Read more »
They say talk is cheap but when it comes to making a fortune both Jerry Springer and Steve Wilkos have perfected the art. When it comes to food though these two TV show hosts can most certainly get the bes,t and that’s why they eat at the Stamford branch of New York chef Giacomo Alaio ‘s… Read more »
Barbara Walters, the first woman to co-anchor a U.S. evening news program, will announce her retirement on “The View” on Monday, ABC network said. Walters, got her start in television journalism in 1961 as a writer on NBC’s “Today.” In 1976, she became the first woman to co-anchor a television evening news broadcast on any U.S…. Read more »
